David Brown Coalition Quotations

Over the next few days the euro zone markets will be watching the German opinion polls very carefully in the run-up to Sunday's general election -- especially at the growing risk of a hung result and a grand coalition being formed,

The markets have been pinning their hopes on improved chances of speedier tax cuts and structural reforms that would speed up the road to faster German recovery, ... Investors would tend to give a grand coalition the thumbs down, as reforms would be put on ice.